Overall Green Earthquake alert in Colombia on 24 Mar 2017 09:00 UTC

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M 5.3 in Colombia on 24 Mar 2017 09:00 UTC

Hazard models

EQ parameters

Shakemap

Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	3.313 , -79.3802
Event Date:	24 Mar 2017 09:00 UTC 24 Mar 2017 04:00 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us20008u8i
Inserted at:	24 Mar 2017 09:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	1.1 (Colombia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us20008u8i	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1161581		0	24 Mar 2017 09:00	5.3M, 10km	N/A	No people affected (in 100km)		00:20	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Colombia , Department of Narino (population 1,197,682) .

Radius	Population
100 km	no people
75 km	no people
50 km	no people
20 km	no people
10 km	no people
5 km	no people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Narino	Colombia	1.2 million people
Cauca	Colombia	960000 people
Valle del Cauca	Colombia	3.4 million people
Esmeraldas	Ecuador	340000 people
Choco	Colombia	360000 people
Carchi	Ecuador	160000 people
Imbabura	Ecuador	290000 people
Pichincha	Ecuador	1.9 million people
Manabi	Ecuador	1.1 million people
Huila	Colombia	810000 people
Putumayo	Colombia	230000 people
Sucumbios	Ecuador	77000 people
Tolima	Colombia	1.2 million people
Napo	Ecuador	200000 people
Risaralda	Colombia	760000 people
Caqueta	Colombia	320000 people
Cotopaxi	Ecuador	300000 people
Quindio	Colombia	430000 people
Los Rios	Ecuador	580000 people
Caldas	Colombia	930000 people
Antioquia	Colombia	4.6 million people
Los Santos	Panama	83000 people
Veraguas	Panama	220000 people
Darien	Panama	39000 people
Guayas	Ecuador	2.8 million people
Tungurahua	Ecuador	420000 people
Herrera	Panama	100000 people
Bolivar	Ecuador	170000 people
Meta	Colombia	590000 people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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